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Academic Consortium Publications for September 2022

Recently, the New York Cider Association provided the Merlyn Dryness Scale for quantifying cider dryness based only on a few chemistry measures: residual sugar, titratable acidity, and total polyphenol content. You might wonder, does a cider’s dryness score, which is based entirely on chemistry measures, line up with what a consumer will experience? This is the question posed in a recent publication Calvert and colleagues [Can Cider Chemistry Predict Sensory Dryness? Benchmarking the Merlyn Dryness Scale ]. Spoiler alert! Their answer is No. You can read about this and other studies published this month by members of the Compusense Academic Consortium below.